Pine Wood

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About

Pine wood is the timber of the pine tree, sawn wood and sawdust, not the needle. It smells resinous first, with a dry sawn-timber body under that. The only direct sensory measurement of the wood tissue rated resin-like at 7.2 out of 10, far ahead of frankincense-like at 2.6 and carpenter's-shop or sawdust-like at 2.7. Herbal, peppery and citrus edges were rated 1.5 to 2.0 and stay minor. That is the opposite emphasis from pine needle oil, which trade suppliers call zesty and close to lime.

Scent Profile

Pine wood smells resinous first, a strong amber, balsamic resin note that outweighs everything else about the timber. A dry, sawn-wood body sits underneath, the smell of a carpenter's shop rather than a living tree. Faint herbal, peppery and citrus edges show only lightly, along with a cooling, turpentine-like lift. This is the opposite emphasis from pine needle oil, which is far more zesty and lime-like.

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Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather, Woody & Earthy

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Pine Wood from materials such as:

Alpha-pinene aromatic · terpenic · cooling

Smell words come from published sources.

Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Pinene

A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.

Origin

Pinus sylvestris and related pines of Europe and northern Asia. Gas chromatography-olfactometry of the wood found degradation products of fatty acids to be the largest group of odour-active constituents, 69% of them (Schreiner, Bauer and Buettner, Scientific Reports, PMC5974339). Almost no commercial material matches this. Suppliers sell pine essential oil and pine absolute made from needles and twigs, and no manufacturer olfactive description for a material labelled 'pine wood' was found. Whether the perfumes tagged with this note use a wood-specific extract is not established.

Usage in Perfumery

Parfumo records 9 perfumes across 8 brands. It belongs in woody and coniferous accords where the drier, resin-led register is wanted rather than the terpene lift of needle oil. ScenTree describes pine absolute as used in leather, woody and oriental bases to bring a sweet and oriental facet, which is the register this note sits closest to.